Discussion on "Super-simple Jira API wrapper for bash/zsh"

andriy melnyk · 2019-08-03T13:52:39.134Z

Often I need some very simple bits of automation of Jira-related tasks without heavy external dependencies like Python version & packages, Groovy classes or even more exotic stuff. Scripts provided below depend only on Bash v4+ or Zsh v5+ (or even ea...

Very interesting. However, I would need a better understanding why I could use this, as opposed to logging into JIRA itself. Is this a good way to hook things into JIRA (almost like Bamboo) - but, via terminal - or for simply managing issues?

Either way, it's nice to see folks bash scripting cool stuff like this. Even if it's experimental, like a script I wrote for exporting files within a range of commits, because I wanted to see if I could. rofl

github.com/stevenventimiglia/git-export

I do a lot of automation around Jira, eg. when commit is merged into release branch, the ticket for delivery team is created, fancy release notes and binary artifacts are generated, and links to all complimentary information should be added to delivery ticket. While production code for this mostly Python & Groovy, short shell commands + jq proved to be the quickest and most convenient way to try & experiment with new things

when commit is merged into release branch, the ticket for delivery team is created

Didn't really think of it from a planning angle, just closing tickets. As long as it threw the new ticket into the backlog, that's actually awesome to have.

Cool stuff — be sure to tag it with General Programming so that it gets a bit more exposure. :)

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